Rutvik is a

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situated in

Luleå Municipality Luleå Municipality () is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Luleå, which is also the county seat of Norrbotten County. Localities There are 18 localities (or urban areas) in Luleå Municipality: ...

Norrbotten County Norrbotten County (, Meänkieli/, ) is the northernmost county or '' län'' of Sweden. It is also the largest county by land area, almost a quarter of Sweden's total area. It shares borders with Västerbotten County to the southwest, the Gulf ...

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with 839 inhabitants in 2010. The locality consists of four areas. The village of Rutvik, Brännan to north, Flarken in the west and Rutviksreveln to the east. The village has a history as early as 1339, documented in the testament of the Rutvik local Svenalde. The population has expanded heavily since the 1970s after industrial expansions were made in central Luleå. Before the population boom, farming was the main industry of the village. In recent years there are no active farms, but horse enthusiasts have stables and keep the grasslands open. There are no significant watercourses, except a shallow creek and some smaller lakes in the surrounding forests. Since 1938, Rutvik also has a

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which practices football, ice-hockey and cross-country skiing. The village also has its own golf course which attracts people from many parts of the municipality. The village has its own school and daycare, but students from grade 7 and older have to go to the neighbouring village of

Gammelstad Gammelstad Church Town () is a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated in Gammelstaden 10 km north of Luleå, Sweden, at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia. It is the best preserved example of a type of town that was once widespread througho ...

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Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...

city.

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Populated places in Luleå Municipality Norrbotten {{Norrbotten-geo-stub